Jill Charlotte Gambino

She would have been 71 on August 7th.

Jill was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, the second child of Lorraine and John Wojcik.

She mothered two sons — Benedict, a Developmental Therapist and writer of Boston, Massachusetts; and John, a Psychiatric Registered Nurse and musician/artist of Barrington, Rhode Island.

Also surviving are her brother Jan Wojcik and sister-in-law Christine Zavgren of Potsdam, New York; granddaughter Lola Lorraine Gambino of Barrington, RI; nephews Max Wojcik of Memphis, Tennessee and Vlad Wojcik of Gordonsville, Virginia; and father of her children, Salvatore Gambino, of Carmel, New York.

Jill was a graduate of Central Catholic High School in Norwalk, Connecticut, the city in which she lived most of her life, moving to Rhode Island in 2010 to be near her children and grandchild. She loved small dogs, long walks, and inherited artistic skill from her grandmother, Hazel Haworth, that she bequeathed to her son John.

Throughout the 1980’s and 90’s Jill was a homemaker, a great cook, and care giver to her mother Lorraine. She was known for keeping an impeccably clean house. For work she fulfilled a managerial role in the Admissions Department of Norwalk Community College in Norwalk, Connecticut.

At her death the walls of her room were covered with her water colors.

Troubled by medical problems for decades, she had some of her happiest years at the end of her life taking walks with her friend Michael—who also survives—for coffee, and

visits to the local library and park.

Jill was a lifelong fan of the music of James Taylor. She was an avid reader, subscribed to the New Yorker and the New York Times.

Her mother, Lorraine, on her deathbed, asked for her ashes to be interred

under a tree on the farm of her son Jan, saying, “when the wind’s in the

trees, I can wave with the leaves.” Jill said she wanted that, too.

There will be a celebration of her life with her friends and family in August of

2021.